If this is your first visit and you wish to register,
please be sure to check our Residency Requirements by
clicking this link.
When, and if, you are ready to register
click on this link.
Whether or not you choose to register, or meet or residency
requirements, please feel free to check out our site as
almost all areas are open to Guest viewing.

Re: Tools you have made for projects

This is a reamer used to make the tapered through wedged mortise and tenon joints used in attaching legs to the seats of stools and Windsor chairs. The plans came from http://www.greenwoodworking.com/ The blade is made from a compass saw blade. Below is a template for turning the tenons made by making a test mortise with the reamer, then cutting it in half.

Re: Tools you have made for projects

Nice reamer Jim.

For years I used the reamer in my seat blanks with a 6:1 and 11:1 taper for the entire tenon. The soft pine and butternut would eventually ease the tenon up "tighter" fit over the years but at a cost. Customers were not impressed with the protruding tenon tip.

I have dropped back to a hybrid reamer and have no more trouble.

I'll go into it a little more if there is interest but the hole in the seat blank is drilled to 3/4" and then reamed at the bottom portion to about 1" to seat the baluster bulb. I think it is a better go.

I drill from the bottom and carve after the holes are drilled. I know this goes against conventional wisdom but I haven't had the feared tear out others mention by drilling first. I guess its another pins or tails first?